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Definition of Quincunxial
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quincunxial
Literary usage of Quincunxial
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A General System of Botany Descriptive and Analytical: In Two Parts by Emmanuel Le Maout, Joseph Decaisne, Joseph Dalton Hooker (1876)
"The depressed spiral presents two modes of {estivation: the imbricate, properly
fo called, and the quincunxial. These two are often indifferently termed ..."
2. The Canadian Record of Science by Natural History Society of Montreal (1893)
"... a quincunxial arrangement which is characteristic and evident ... aspect to
the rows of cells, besides the oblique or quincunxial disposition. ..."
3. Report by Indiana Dept. of Statistics and Geology (1884)
"4, placed in quincunxial order, either flattened or hollow at the top, ... H.
TORTUOSA, Schp. Steins small; tubercles in quincunxial order or alternate in ..."
4. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"QUINCUNX. An arrangement of five points, four of them being at the corners of a
square, and the fifth in the centre. A quincunxial arrangement is a series ..."
5. Works by Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1838)
"To his treatise on " Urn-burial" was added . " The Garden of Cyrus, or the
quincunxial lozenge, ..."
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